"Viewed by many as the founding figure of Western philosophy, Socrates (469-399 BC) is at once the most exemplary and the strangest of the Greek philosophers. His style of teaching-immortalized as the Socratic Method-involved not conveying knowledge but rather asking question after clarifying question until until his students arrived at their own understanding. He wrote nothing himself, so all that is known about him is filtered through the writings of a few contemporaries and followers, most of all, his student Plato. He was accused of corrupting the youth of Athens and sentenced to death. Choosing not to flee, he spent his final days in the company of his friends before drinking the executioner’s cup of poisonous hemlock," - History Channel

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Jacques-Louis
David, The Death of Socrates, 1787.

Daguerreotype

Salted paper print from calotype negative

Albumen paper print

Southworth and Hawes, Portrait of an Unknown Woman, c. 1850.

David Octavius Hill, Miss Crampton of Dublin, c. 1845.

Nadar, Sarah
Bernhardt, 1865.

Joseph
Mallard William Turner, The Slave Ship, 1840.

Joseph
Mallord William Turner, Snowstorm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps,
1812.

Jacques Louis David,Napoleon
Crossing the Saint-Bernard, 1800 - 1801.

Joseph
Mallord William Turner, Snowstorm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps,
1812.

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